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  • noun Alternative form of power top.

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  • "I could also suggest running 'powertop' to see if anything is set wrong.

    TechNewsWorld 2009

  • Pretty amazing I must say, I just wonder now if systemd would incorporate things like powertop, monitoring processes/detecting process responsiveness and things like that.

    planet.freedesktop.org 2010

  • Bear in mind that this is not a full ROM update, but is an add-on pack that comprises of a custom kernel, Busybox, Nano 2.09, powertop, dropbear, titanium backup and more importantly, wireless tethering option.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets 2010

  • Visit the following links: powertop shows enormous activity hrtimer_start_range_ns

    LinuxQuestions.org dolphin77 2010

  • Well, I updated my kernel to tweak some ACPI parameters (fruitlessly, as it turns out; I'm trying to get powertop to give me more information but I haven't found the magic combination of kernel parameters it wants on this machine) and so I did a make modules_install.

    LinuxChix aggregator 2009

  • Well, I updated my kernel to tweak some ACPI parameters (fruitlessly, as it turns out; I'm trying to get powertop to give me more information but I haven't found the magic combination of kernel parameters it wants on this machine) and so I did a make modules_install.

    LinuxChix aggregator 2009

  • You can check the wakeups-per-second with powertop.

    Planet Debian Uwe Hermann 2009

  • "I DID have to use powertop and tweak laptop_mode settings to get there, though, as well as removing gnome-screensaver, which obstinately refuses to use no screensaver even when you have told it never to blank the screen."

    TechNewsWorld 2009

  • You can check the wakeups-per-second with powertop.

    Planet Debian 2009

  • Visit the following links: ok so i have been running powertop and running their suggestions (running it once is enough right, like it stores that and uses it at startup too right?) and the suggestions are on a loop right? if you fix it the sugestion should still be displayed right?

    LinuxQuestions.org 2009

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